2008/135 Mail Utilities

[Danek Duvall]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 11:41:14AM -0500, Stephen Talley wrote:

> > >      Math & Microtasking     Committed
> >
> > I don't think it matters too much, but why do all these executables
> > depend on Math & Microtasking?  My copies of mutt and fetchmail, at
> > least, don't link against these libraries, though.
> 
> This line refers to the dependency on libm.so (part of SUNWlibmsr),
> which is required by libc.  As such, this dependency is implicit and
> could be removed from the list for all intents and purposes.

Yes; you should be including explicit dependencies only, unless there's
something exceptionally interesting that you end up drawing in implicitly
(in which case you should say so explicitly).

> > >      /usr/bin/pgpewrap           Volatile                Executable
> > >      /usr/bin/pgpring            Volatile                Executable
> > >      /usr/bin/smime_keys         Volatile                Perl script
> >
> > Hmm.  Is there any point in shipping the pgp-related bits if we
> > don't ship pgp?
> 
> Gnupg is on the list of open source projects to be included in
> OpenSolaris (see the list at
> http://infoshare.sfbay/twiki/bin/view/Main/OpenSolarisCabinet).  When
> it comes, the pgp bits should be in place.

So these utilities don't link with any pgp libraries?

> Until then, others (like myself) who have their own GPG compilation
> rely on mutt to be able to work with it.

Okay.

> > And I don't see a man page for smime_keys, so how does it relate to
> > the key management tools we already have on Solaris?
> 
> This is a script that sets up S/MIME for mutt users.  I know of no
> existing S/MIME management utilities on Solaris.

Is there any documentation for smime_keys?  Or for the pgp utils?  Without
man pages or even useful usage messages, how are people supposed to know
what they're used for?

Danek